"three Species of Trifolium. 229 
ticifes it as bad; and Dr. Stokes is the firft who has remarked 
that this, as well as thofe by Lobel, Gerarde, and Parkinfon, does 
not belong to Trifol. pratenfe, but to repens. 
Gerarde, in his Herbal, has a genuine figure as well as defcription | 
of Trifol; pratenfe ; the former taken from Tabernæmontanus; as I 
have faid above. But Johnfon, who publithed a new, and, as him- 
felf called it, improved edition of Gerarde, thought this figure not 
good enough ; and therefore inferted in its room the figure above 
cited, which reprefents the Trifol repens, and is borrowed either 
from Lobel or Dodonzus; at the fame time retaining Gerarde's 
defcription : and thus unluckily confounded plants fo different as 
the creeping and purple Trefoil are. Parkinfon, who afterwards 
publithed his Theatrum, copied the laft edition of Gerarde ; and, 
as he faw the flowers were there defcribed purple, he thought it 
beft to infert that circumftance in the very title: by this means 
the white Trifol. repens came to be called by him purpureum. 
3.. Trifolium ochroleucum, 
Trifolium montanum majus, flore albo os Merr. 
Pin. Ps 121. Li sisal ores 
“Trifolium lagopoides annuum "hirfutum, pallide rete 
feu ochroleucum. Mor. Hif. i. p. 141, n. 12. * Et 
Trifolium lagopoides, fl. ochroleuco. Jéid. fe&t. 2, tab. 
I2, fig. 12. 
Trifolium pratenfe hirfutum majus, flore albo fulphureo 
feu ochroleuco. di Hifi. i. p.943, n. 8. * Et Sys, 
ii: piga 116. Aes 
. Triphylloides alpina, flore albo. Ponted, Anthol. p.24rT* — 
Trifolium Lagopoides flore fubluteo. | aZ. Par. p» 195, 
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